Search Results: Authors starting with C from Borg Antiquarian

New York Toronto: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc, 1940. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good. Charles Child. 8vo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4"), red cloth with black lettering on spine & small gold circle with rampant horse on front cover, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket of a crowned long haired king, [xxiv] + [271] pages. James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken, Edmund Wilson, and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when they were most popular. For Cabell, veracity was "the one unpardonable sin, not merely against art, but against human welfare." Although escapist, Cabell's works are ironic and satirical. The author's Heirs and Assigns trilogy consisted of this volume: HAMLET HAD AN UNCLE (1940), The King Was in His Counting House (1938), ad The First Gentleman of America… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. First Illustrated Edition: 1 of 204 copies printed on Japan paper #173. Decorative vellum. Very Good +. Albert Hertler. Quarto (10 1/8" x 7 1/8" x 1 1/2"); vellum with gold lettering and decorative title on spine and front cover with Art Deco flower; illustrated with B&W lithographic frontispiece and six comparable plates [all with tissue guards], 14 head & tail-pieces by Albert Herter; top page edges gilded [t.e.g.]; 234 pages printed on Japan paper. Weight: 2 lbs. 1.5 oz. George Washington Cable (1844 - 1925) was an American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been called "the most important southern artist working in the late 19th century", as well as "the first modern Southern writer."<br /> <br /> Albert Herter (1871 - 1950) was an American painter, illustrator, muralist, and interior designer. <br /> <br />… Read More

New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, 2013. First Edition, Second Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Near Fine. SIGNED by the Author, 8vo, black quarter cloth over black boards, archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped), with image of a lit lantern in a man's hand; 353 pages + [1] Acknowledgements. SIGNED SUPERIOR COPY: very tight, bright, & clean copy. Slight rubbing to head and foot of dj's spine.<br/> <br/> Lusty Ben's son, the "base-born" offspring of has favorite mistress, Anne, was raised by Franklin's common law Loyalist wife Deborah. Son William (1730-1813) was to become the last Colonial Governor of New Jersey (1763-1776) and a leader of the Loyalists, which led to family tragedy.<br/> <br/> Sally Cabot Gunning is the New England author of six critically acclaimed historically themed novels: The Widow's War, Bound, The Rebellion of Jane Clarke, Benjamin Franklin's Bastard, Monticello: A Daughter and Her… Read More

Berkeley, California: Heyday, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. B&W. Tall 8vo, black boards with bright scarlet lettering on spine and front cover, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a statue of justice before a cityscape, illustrated with many B&W in-text photos, beige endpapers, xi, [xii] + 515 pages. Weight: 2 lbs. 3 oz. Dynamic history of the US District Court for the Northern District of California based in San Francisco. It "set precedents that decided the fate of Mexican land grants and shanghaied sailors and establishedcivil rights for Chinese immigrants." <br/>Thereafter, its verdicts shaped the Bay Area's geography, culture, and commerce.<br/><br/>AS NEW copy. No remainder marks. Lengthy inscription on the front free endpaper by a person apparently connected to the production of this volume.

New York: Hawthorne Books, Inc, 1974. Book Club Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo, khakki green cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped), illustrated with 12 pages of glossy B&W photos and 2 maps, 243 pages. The battle of Kursk (5 July 1943ff.), which involved Hitler's panzers and combined forces against Russian men and weaponry was "the greatest single land-and-air combat engagement in military history"--jacket. Martin Caidin (1927 - 1997) was an American author and expert on aviation. Caidin began writing fiction in 1957. Proflific, he wrote more than 50 fiction and nonfiction books, and more than 1,000 magazine articles. He is known for his work on The Six Million Dollar Man (1974), Condition: Near Fine overall: tight, clean copy with a VG dust jacket (unclipped) with some wear at its edges, the top and bottom of its spine, and a "V" upper right corner.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. / in Grosset & Dunlap dust jacket, 1947. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. Small 8vo (7 1/2" x 5"), yellow cloth with green lettering, archival polyester-protected pictorial Grosset & Dunlop dust jacket (unclipped), Preface by the author, xvi, [xvii-xviii] + 165 pages + [3] Printer's Note]. James M[allahan] Cain (1892 - 1977) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is widely regarded as a progenitor of the hardboiled school of American crime fiction.<br /> <br /> His novels The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), Double Indemnity' (1936), Serenade (1937), and THE BUTTERFLY (1947) brought him critical acclaim and an immense popular readership. <br /> <br /> FINE COPY in a Very Good unclipped but later G&D dj. The First Edition Knopf edition has been cloaked in a pretty dust jacket from its early reprint. Tight, clean copy with moderate wear to dust jacket. <br /> <br /> <br />… Read More

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981. First Trade Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo, tourquoise quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over gold boards, frontispiece oval B&W photo of Cain, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped), 312 pages. James Mallahan Cain (1892 - 1977) was an American author associated with the hardboiled crime fiction and the roman noir. His crime novels The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), and Double Indemnity (1936, 1943) became classic movies. <br/> <br/> Uncommon title in this edition and condition. Collects several fascinating and thrilling stories by Cain. <br/> <br/> Fine/VG copy. Tight, bright cloth. The striking period dust jacket (price-clipped) is bright with light soil evident on its rear panel. No previous owner or remainder marks.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First Edition [printing unspecified]. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Small 8vo, light green cloth with green lettering, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) with pale green moth designed by Arthur Hawkins, Jr., 373 pages + [2] Acknowledgements + [2] A Note on the Type. James M[allahan] Cain (1892 - 1977) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is widely regarded as a progenitor of the hardboiled school of American crime fiction.<br /> <br /> His novels The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), Double Indemnity' (1936), Serenade (1937), Mildred Pierce (1941), and The Butterfly (1947) brought him critical acclaim and an immense popular readership in America and abroad. <br /> <br /> Cain's ninth novel, The Moth, appeared in 1948, the year after The Butterfly.<br /> <br /> UNCOMMON title in this edition and condition. Tight, clean copy with moderate wear to cloth and dust jacket, which… Read More

N.P.: by the author, N.D.. original poem. Paper. Near Fine/None. Erskin Caldwell. Unique handwritten shaped poem in the form of a tree, accomplished in black felt tip on an off-white 8.5 x 11 sheet, SIGNED and TITLED at the bottom, "Common Shade Tree,-Erskine Caldwell." RARE & in Near FINE Condition. Caldwell has composed a shaped poem with acrostic tendencies. The shape, layers, and parts of the tree are comprised of words such as "Tree," "Leaves," "Leaf," "Limb," "Bark," "Trunk," "Background," and "Foreground." Erskine Caldwell (1903 - 1987) was an American novelist. short story writer, and poet. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States in novels such as Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre won him critical acclaim. Caldwell wrote 25 novels, 150 short stories, twelve nonfiction collections, two autobiographies, and two books for young… Read More

New York: The Dial Press [Random House], 2004. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Fine/Fine. SIGNED by both Authors & inscribed by Dustin Thomason, 8vo, cream-colored cloth over mottled gray boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket, 372 + [2] pages. An exceptional novel in Exceptional Condition SIGNED by both authors & with a fine inscription.

New York: Minotaur Books, 2014. First Edition, First Printing. Boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. INSCRIBED by the Author, 8vo, dark gray boards with whitle lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a woman by a candle in a window, 343 pages. Susanna Calkins, Ph.D., is the American author of the award-winning Lucy Campion series set in 17th century London.. Her historical mysteries have been nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark and Agatha awards. The Murder at Rosamund's Gate, featuring Lucy Campion, was her first novel. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION: tight, bright, clean copy in comparable dust jacket (unclipped).

New York Toronto London Sydney Auckland: Bantam Books, 1990. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo, black cloth with silver spine lettering over mottled dark green boards, 26 B&W Figures, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a cave bison and human silhouettes, xvi + 302 pages. An important demonstration of likely evolutionary pressures caused by climate that powerfully affected human cognitive development. Fine Condition with a bit of rubbing to extremities of the dust jacket! Small previous owner's presentation on free front endpaper.

Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. As New/As New. Charts B&W. 8vo, green cloth with silver lettering on spine, archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a man's brain above palm trees bent over by a storm, illustrated with several B&W images, black endpapers, vii, [viii] + 341 pages. William H. Calvin (born 1939) is an American theoretical neurophysiologist and professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is known for popularizing neuroscience and evolutionary biology, including the hybrid of those two fields, neural Darwinism. He relates abrupt climate change to human evolution and more recently has been working on global climate change issues.<br/><br/>EXCEPTIONAL "AS NEW" CONDITION! No remainder marks.

New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book / Starscape, 2018. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. As New/As New. INSCRIBED & SIGNED Boldly by the Author on title page, 8vo, pale green cloth with black lettering on spine and blindstamped silhouette of dog Shelby on front cover, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with colored imge of dog Shelby by Getty Images, 207 pages + [1] About the Author. Inspired by A Dog's Way Home. Book may soon be made into a movie.<br/> <br/> William Bruce Cameron (born 1960) is an American author, columnist, and humorist. Cameron is most famous for his novel A Dog's Purpose and its sequels.<br/> <br/> INSCRIBED by Author. As New Condition: Sharp, bright, tight! Unclipped immaculate dust jacket. No previous owner or remainder marks.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press, 1975. First Edition with facsimiles of period B&W photos. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. Photos. Folio (13 1/4" x 9 3/4" x 1"), green cloth with gilt lettering and bands on spine & "JMC" stamped on front cover, Introductory essay by Lord David Cecil; archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with photo of two children, profusely illustrated with 119 full-page glossy B&W period photos with legends on facing pages; vii, 11, [120 leaves]; 252 pages. Weight: 4 lbs. 6 oz. Julia Margaret Cameron (née Pattle; 1815 - 1879) was a British photographer who is considered one of the most important portraitists of the 19th century. She is known for her soft-focus close-ups of famous Victorian men (often well-known scientists, writers, or clergymen), and for illustrative images depicting characters from mythology, Christianity, and literature. She also produced sensitive portraits of women and children. Her… Read More

New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book / FORGE, 2015. First Edition, First Printing. Boards. As New/As New. Tall 8vo, gray boards with gold lettering on spine, map illustration of the "Territory of the Northern Creeds," archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with gilt silhouette of dog by Jeff Miller, pictorial endpapers depicting a primitive wall painting of a hunter with dog, 416 pages. A Novel of the First Dog. Interesting and plausible historical fiction.<br/> <br/> William Bruce Cameron (born 1960) is an American author, columnist, and humorist. Cameron is most famous for his novel A Dog's Purpose and its sequels.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1964. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Fine/Near Fine. Photos. 8vo, brown half cloth over tan boards, illustrated with 16 B&W glossies by Matthew Brady, et al., Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped), maroon endpapers, xvi + 301 pages. "The historic trial of Johnny Seurat for the murder of Abraham Lincoln -- one of the most extraordinary episodes of the Civil War period."--jacket SUPERIOR CONDITION internally & externally: tight, bright, clean with bright, unfoxed, photographic plates.

Boston New York London: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. Map Endpapers. 8vo, ivory quarter cloth with light gold lettering over ivory boards, archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a mountain reddened by sunset taken by Wolfgang Kaehler, map endpapers depicting "The Antarctic Penninsula and Shetand Islands" & "King George Island"; ix, [x] + 308 pages. Winner of a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. An inspired and eloquent study based on professor Daviod Campbell's three summers on Antarctica with The Brazilian Research Station (1988). The distinguished ecologist conducted research on the pathologies of krill and marine isopods in the waters of Admiralty Bay, King George Island (one of the South Shetlands of the Antarctic Peninsula. <br/><br/>His experiences are brilliantly described in The Crystal Desert, which won the Burroughs Medal, the… Read More

London: Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co, 1853. Third Edition / "New Edition". Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Very Good/None. Engravings. 8vo, dark green decorative cloth with gilt lettering on spine, blind stamping and embossed gilt elephant on front cover bearing two men through tall grass hiding a tiger and cobra, Prefaces to First & Second Edition, engraved frontispiece and 5 illustrations, [archival glassine cover added], xiv, [xv-xvi], 359 pages. An exciting pre-conservation ramble through rugged Indian hills and jungles where truly dangerous creatures lived. Relates interesting material on many local animals. Wonderfully illustrated.<br/> <br/> Very Good condition. Light uniform age-toning to pages; clean unfoxed engravings with occasional small and light smudges in margins. Original pictorial tite page has slight soil to margins. Solid and unmarked copy with slight cocking. Cloth has minimal wear and gilt retains considerable brightness.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf / A Borzoi Book, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very Fine/Very Fine. Photos in color and B&W. Thick heavy 8vo, greenback green cloth with gold lettering on spine, illustrated with 16 glossy full-color images of art works collected by Mellon / two sets of 16 glossy B&W photos of Mellon & associates; mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with portrait of Andrew Mellon, pictorial endpapers, xvi + 779 pages + [2] A Note About the Author / A Note on the Type. Weight: 3 lbs 5 oz. Andrew William Mellon (1855 - 1937), sometimes A.W., was an American banker, businessman, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector, and politician of the "Gilded Age" and "Progressive Era." From the wealthy Mellon family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he established a business empire before he became the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1921 to 1932, under Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. He thus presided over the Roaring Twenties and Great… Read More